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by csense 9y ago
I think there may be some hysteresis effect going on here. If wealthy countries developed their tech industry sooner, you'd expect them to have a larger installed base of projects written using older technologies. This effect explains
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by csense 9y ago
My favorite browser? Ability to set ceiling for memory usage and bandwidth per tab. It has traditional boxy 1990's style design, a traditional File, Edit, etc., none of this hamburger menu crap. It suspends or kills background tabs.
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by csense 9y ago
How is it that the world's most advanced technological nation in 2017 can't keep its navy ships from running into each other?
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by csense 9y ago
I don't care for Android or IOS. Does anyone know of a phone that runs plain old Linux?
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by csense 9y ago
TLDR, the Linux non-blocking filesystem API requires you to bypass the OS file cache (!!!) So the whole webserver serving clients might occasionally block waiting for disk if you're serving online videos or some other application where
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by csense 9y ago
He was 103 when the photograph was taken, it's amazing he looks like he's maybe in his 70's.
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by csense 9y ago
This is only possible because Apple has a "walled garden" app store and doesn't let people install stuff from outside it. The solution is simple: Publish an official jailbreak allowing expert iPhone users to root their phon
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by csense 9y ago
Because that would make it easier to migrate away from Github, which Github doesn't want you to do.
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by csense 9y ago
As someone from a place in the Rust Belt that's well in the triple digits of this 150-city ranking, I think I have a little insight. The problem isn't a lack of smart, ambitious kids. It's not bad schools. There are even mu
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by csense 9y ago
PG agrees you, he wrote a whole essay about the subject in 2012 [1]. At that point in time, he wrote that "just two companies, Dropbox and Airbnb, account for about three quarters of [YC's value]." [1] http://www.
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by csense 9y ago
What's the end-game of the war on terror? What victory condition do we need to achieve to get terrorists to stop attempting massacres, so we can unwind these security measures?
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by csense 9y ago
> the social justice goals of some cryptocurrencies Which cryptocurrencies have social justice goals? IMHO the cryptocurrency movement's politics are mainly libertarian -- get government out of the way (by establishing a means of pa
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by csense 9y ago
I'm pretty sure Andras, at least, is in Persona 5. It's interesting how the cultural influence of something like this is still with us.
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by csense 9y ago
How do they make money? Do users pay for the service? It is not obvious from the website.
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by csense 9y ago
Rule #1: Don't let the people vote, otherwise they might vote the wrong way. For some reason, Britain forgot about that rule and let the people vote on Brexit. You can be sure they won't make that mistake again. EDIT: I'm
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by csense 9y ago
The last link gives a cert error, but http works. Maybe you should edit it.
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by csense 9y ago
The next generation of the cellphone protocol should include some kind of PKI so the telco can't be spoofed without its permission. Don't know if that will actually help, because the telcos are already quite compliant about giving
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by csense 9y ago
Back in the day, a kid fresh out of high school could get a good job. By his early-to-mid twenties, afford to have a house, two cars, a family, and one spouse could be a full-time parent. Nowadays, college graduates struggle for that sort
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by csense 9y ago
> Raise the minimum wage > Make it easier for workers to bargain collectively for higher wages > Make more workers eligible for overtime pay > Provide earned sick time and paid family leave Good suggestions. Unfortunately, if y
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by csense 9y ago
This is a real effect. If you have 100 people, 95 of them are competent and put out 6 resumes every 3 years (on average 2/year), and 5 of them are incompetent and put out 100 resumes every year, then in a typical year the average hirin
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by csense 10y ago
Bezier curves are usually defined as polynomials. It would be interesting to see some algebraic derivation showing how the polynomial form of the curve follows from the construction in the visualization.
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by csense 10y ago
For the most part, early games dumped you directly from the title screen into the gameplay. They had a few paragraphs in the manual explaining that some bad guy's kidnapped the princess, and it's time for the chosen hero to beat
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by csense 10y ago
I've never bought an Apple product in my life. This article makes me feel good about that decision.
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by csense 10y ago
Why the heck does this guy think abuse is OK? I mean, what possible thought process could he have, that ends with "...and that's why I should hit my wife today!" I'm not trying to justify the guy's actions. I&#x
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by csense 10y ago
I thought that for x86, backwards compatibility was the name of the game. Why do these new processors require OS support?
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by csense 10y ago
Defining it's tricky, and it is hard to see how to do it algorithmically. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. I think Reddit does something interesting with upvote / downvote ratios, I don't remember the specifi
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by csense 10y ago
The money has to come from somewhere. Why shouldn't private spaceflight use our financial system's existing infrastructure for raising capital? In my mind, spending tax dollars on space is fine for exploration and science. But
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by csense 10y ago
Censorship isn't something I'm in favor of, but I think the idea Berners-Lee has is something different. Any given content has "viral coefficients" that determine how fast it replicates and how likely it is to die out b
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by csense 10y ago
The biggest problem I see with the US today is we lack a national narrative for success . From ~1950 - ~1980 it was something like "Get a good job, work hard and you'll be able to succeed." By whatever combination of polit
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by csense 10y ago
What would it take to create a Shenzen in the US, say, to economically revitalize a Rust Belt industrial center that's near rock-bottom after decades of decline? I'm, uh...asking for a friend... :)

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